MN’s 20 largest school districts moving online as 69 more schools report...
The vast majority of Twin Cities public school students will be in distance learning next month, and new coronavirus data published Thursday suggests the rest of them ought to be. Of the state’s 87...
View ArticleHeading home for the holiday? Get a virus test, colleges say.
As college students prepare to go home for the holidays, some schools are quickly ramping up COVID-19 testing to try to keep infections from spreading further as the coronavirus surges across the U.S....
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Families of students who died in ‘Nerf Wars’ crash lose lawsuit against...
Lakeville Area Schools will not be held legally responsible for a fatal 2015 crash involving four students who were playing the last-man-standing game Nerf War. Anoka County District Judge Bethany...
View ArticleThanksgiving 2020: First-graders share what they’re thankful for in a pandemic
What are children thankful for during a pandemic? Chicken nuggets. Teachers. Moms and dads. Not getting COVID-19. Love. Toilet paper. We can relate. In 2020, we feel a deeper appreciation — even a...
View ArticleRead more responses: We asked children what they are thankful for in 2020 and...
In our annual gratitude writing project for Thanksgiving, we asked first-graders what they are thankful for in 2020. Here are some of their responses: Individual entries: “I am thankful for having a...
View ArticleHeading home for the holiday? Get a virus test, colleges say.
As college students prepare to go home for the holidays, some schools are quickly ramping up COVID-19 testing to try to keep infections from spreading further as the coronavirus surges across the U.S....
View ArticleAccreditor takes Leech Lake Tribal College off probation
Leech Lake Tribal College no longer is on probation with its accreditor. Trustees for the Higher Learning Commission this month removed the sanction, which had been in place for the Cass Lake community...
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Rosario: Not rain nor snow nor COVID-19 stops these kids
One recalls that confusing and emotional day his father dropped him and his younger sister off at an orphanage, never to be seen again. Another took on part-time jobs and dipped into stock savings...
View ArticleSt. Paul East Side charter school expansions get preliminary bond approval...
No one has argued that Hope Community Academy has been a bad neighbor. In fact, just the opposite. The predominantly Southeast Asian charter school on St. Paul’s Payne Avenue has opened its doors for...
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MN Dept. of Education to add nonbinary gender options for student data...
The Minnesota Department of Education is preparing to update its student data collection system so that it can recognize gender identities besides male and female. The department says it began...
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Lame-duck school board weighs extending Stillwater superintendent’s contract
The election in November caused a sea change on the Stillwater Area School Board when a slate of five newcomers were swept into office following a contentious four years. Two of the new board members,...
View ArticleCoronavirus pushes 47 of 50 largest MN school districts into distance learning
As the coronavirus continues to surge in Minnesota, just three of the state’s 50 largest school districts plan to have students in school next week. Middle and high school students are learning from...
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Lame-duck Stillwater school board moves to extend superintendent’s contract
Stillwater Area School District’s interim superintendent could be named superintendent later this month in one of the last acts of the majority of the board that was swept out in November. Five...
View ArticleSchools confront ‘off the rails’ numbers of failing grades
The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning. School districts from coast to...
View ArticleSchool board votes to drop Henry Sibley’s name from Mendota Heights high school
Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights will soon have a new name. The West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area School Board voted Monday evening to drop the name of Minnesota’s first governor from...
View ArticleWho was Henry Sibley? And why does it matter now?
It’s difficult not to be reminded of Henry Hastings Sibley if you live in northern Dakota County or even if you pass through it as a visitor. Sibley Memorial Highway runs through the neighboring...
View ArticleSt. Paul district offers second chance after HS students fail 34% of classes
After a rough start to the school year, St. Paul Public Schools high schoolers will get a chance to erase their failing grades if they show improvement in the coming weeks. While learning from home...
View ArticleHOPE Community Academy Charter School gets $23 million bond approval from St....
Acting as the St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the city council voted 5-2 on Wednesday to approve $23 million in conduit revenue bonds for a charter school expansion on Payne Avenue....
View ArticleShort on revenue during pandemic, UMN considers loans to cover half of $166M...
The University of Minnesota plans to take out loans to cover about half of an expected $166 million budget deficit this school year. The Board of Regents on Thursday talked about how to address the...
View ArticleRochester school board suspends superintendent after plagiarism admission
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Rochester school board unanimously voted this week to suspend Superintendent Michael Muñoz for five days in response to a plagiarized letter he sent to the district’s staff...
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